Corophiida is an

infraorder Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between Family_(biology), family and Class_(biology), class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classific ...

amphipod Amphipoda () is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphipod species cur ...

s that contains the two parvorders Caprellidira ( skeleton shrimp and whale lice) and Corophiidira. In 2003–2013, this group was treated as a suborder, Corophiidea, which in turn had been re-established to contain the taxa previously treated as the suborder

Caprellidea Caprelloidea is a superfamily of marine crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It includes "untypical" forms of amphipods, such as the skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae). The group was formerly treated as one of the four amp ...

, together with some families formerly placed in the suborder

Gammaridea Gammaridea was one of the suborders of the order Amphipoda, comprising small, shrimp-like crustaceans. In a traditional classification, it encompassed about 7,275 (92%) of the 7,900 species of amphipods described by then, in approximately 1,000 g ...

. More recently, the group was made part of the new suborder

Senticaudata Senticaudata is one of the six suborders of the crustacean order Amphipoda (aka scuds, sideswimmers). It includes some 6000 species, which is more than 50% of the currently recognized amphipod diversity.Horton, T. et al. World Amphipoda DatabasIn ...

.Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (2013
A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

Zootaxa ''Zootaxa'' is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week ...

3610 (1): 1-80.

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* arthropod infraorders {{Amphipod-stub